12 Myths About The Human Body Debunked

We all know we have five senses, right? Sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste. It’s how we experience the world and it’s what we are all taught.

The myth of only having five senses can be traced back to 350 B.C.E, with Aristotle first spreading the idea. A little fact about Aristotle: even though he is well known, he was wrong about pretty much everything.

What if I told you that you actually have a sixth sense, and what if I actually told you that you may have up to 33? You may think I’m lying, but this is what science has told us. Unfortunately, none of these involve seeing dead people.

Some of these 33 include, but are not limited to: thermoception (sense of temperature), nociception (sense of pain), equilibrioception (sense of balance), proprioception (knowing where a limb is relative to the rest of your body, even without the sense of vision to aid you), thirst (how dehydrated you are), and hunger (telling you when you need to eat).

Some of these senses are vital to our survival, yet we are never taught about them as senses. For instance, if you could not balance you may fall from something high, if you could not tell where a limb was you could get it trapped, those who can’t feel pain often die young due to injuries they don’t know about, and without thermoception you could get hypo or hyperthermia. Hunger and thirst are rather self-explanatory.

Many more senses are being discovered all the time; in 50 years we might even have 45 senses that we know about. But probably still won't be able to see ghosts.